Penectomy WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Penectomy
Penectomy is the practice of surgical removal of the penis for medical reasons. Cancer, for example, sometimes necessitates removal of all or part of the penis. In very rare instances, botched circumcisions have also resulted in full or partial penectomies. Genital surgical procedures for transsexual women undergoing sex reassignment surgery do not usually involve the complete removal of the penis. Instead, part or all of the glans is usually kept and reshaped as a clitoris, while the skin of the penile shaft may also be inverted to form the vagina. When procedures such as this are not possible, other procedures such as colovaginoplasty are used which may involve the removal of the penis. ...more from Wikipedia.
Fast Facts:
- There is no possibility of sexual intercourse after a full penectomy.1
- Passing urine is achieved by creating a new opening for the urethra.2
- The American Cancer Society estimates that about 1,530 new cases of penile cancer will be diagnosed this year.2
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- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Amy Sandhu
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Amy Sandhu
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Radical Penectomy, Total Penectomy, Partial Penectomy, Full Penectomy
- Last update: Sep. 16, 2008
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
